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The Gift

Not every gift is welcome.

2015 · 1h 48m · R Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by Joel Edgerton

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Overview

Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going as planned until a chance run-in with Simon's high school acquaintance sends their world into a tailspin.

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All reviews
92%
Tomatometer
Fresh

It's a concept that's more often the basis of arrested development comedies about late bloomers who finally come into their own, but there's nothing funny about how the past looms over the adults that Gordo and Simon have become.

Alison Willmore, BuzzFeed News
Fresh

The Gift chillingly illustrates what happens when fate reunites a class bully (Jason Bateman) with his prize victim, Gordo (Edgerton).

Scott Marks, San Diego Reader
Fresh

Clever and atmospheric, the film has enough twists to keep the average viewer guessing.

James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Fresh

Officially, this is a blank-from-hell movie. But Edgerton has remixed the formula.

Wesley Morris, Grantland
Fresh

The Gift starts out like so many other thrillers before it - with an attractive, well-to-do couple purchasing a big new house - and then beats its own, uniquely tense and twisted path from there.

Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture

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